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Measurement of Mobile Service Quality Based on Local Area Communication Node  

Kim, Jongdeug (서울과학기술대학교 전기정보공학과)
Jeon, Taehyun (서울과학기술대학교 전기정보공학과)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.8, no.4, 2013 , pp. 53-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
The quality of service for the voice and data communication is one of the most important elements in the mobile cellular networks. This quality has the time varying characteristics depending on the wireless network environments. In order to guarantee the quality of service at the predefined level, the mobile service provider needs to collect all the information about the level of quality served by the local base stations. In the conventional method the information on the service quality is measured and collected by the moving vehicle adopting the global positioning device. However this method requires relatively high cost and does not cover all the service areas. In this paper a new method is proposed utilizing a measurement node with local area communication transceiver and the mobile user equipment. In the proposed method the node communicates with the user equipment periodically to monitor the information on the service quality. The resulting information is reported to the measurement server in the mobile network. This method could be applied to either the circuit or the packet based networks. It also has an advantage in terms of the cost efficiency compared to the conventional method considering the required the equipment and the human resources.
Keywords
Mobile Network; Quality of Service; Wireless Local Area Network;
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